Номер 2, страница 52 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Вербицкая, Маккинли

Unit 6. An eye for an eye?. Grammar and reading - номер 2, страница 52.

Условие.

2 Read the article and check your answers to the questions in Exercise 1.

jackass American English 1 a male donkey 2 (offensive) stupid or annoying

Newsletter from America

Liz Connery on what's happening across the Atlantic

Rough Justice

Last weekend I was staying with some friends in Ohio. I needed a break from New York, and someone had told me it was a nice, quiet place.

It was Sunday at 10 o'clock, and I was jogging in a park. I was running near the street when I saw a crowd of people, a police car and a donkey! I ran forward and pushed through the crowd. When I reached the front, the police had stopped the traffic and two teenagers were walking along the street with the donkey and a sign that said, 'Sorry for the jackass offence.' They looked miserable. Why were they doing this? What had they done?

I asked one of the cops. It was a punishment, he said. They were doing it because they had stolen a statue from a church and destroyed it. A judge, Michael Ciccnetti, had sentenced them to 45 days in jail, ordered them to pay for a new statue and given them this unusual punishment. This was not the first time that this judge had thought of an original way to punish...

Решение.